– ordered to post $100,000 surety for allegedly stealing two blank birth certificates valued $60 each
EMPLOYEE of the Ministry of Local Government, Nalini Singh-Ramotar, 23, has been charged with larceny by clerk or servant.

The defendant, of Lot 188 Charlotte Street, Bourda, Georgetown, appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson yesterday and pleaded not guilty.

The charge against Singh-Ramotar said, on September 22, 2009, being employed at the General Registrar Office, she stole two blank birth certificates valued $60 each, property of the GRO.

Attorney-at-law Mr. Peter Hugh, for the Defence, requested that the defendant be released on her own recognisance, as she had no previous convictions and had attended Court on her own free will.

The lawyer said Singh-Ramotar is presently employed at the Ministry as a typist clerk.

Police Inspector Stephen Telford, prosecuting, had no objections to bail and said the documents were recovered from the person to whom the defendant allegedly gave them.

He said that person was not charged, being a witness and who was merely taking instructions from the defendant.
Singh-Ramotar was ordered to post $100,000 surety until February 17.